eep in a European bedroom he found them too stuffy and did not like the fact that the bed was off the ground. He had a struggle with some of the staff in a house he stayed in, but ultimately triumphed. Hu sleeps henceforth on the floor, the late summer breeze around him. Spence writes about different cultural interpretations to convey that it is important to notice the different ways people view cultures and their biases towards them. He recognizes that everyone is going to have their own biases towards everything, however, the questions he brings up emphasize the importance of the awareness of these biases. Spence never directly defines what it means to interpret another culture because he wants the reader to make that judgment for themselves, but the issue of translation is a main theme having to do with interpretation within his story. Foucquet is interpreting the Chinese literature in a way to prove his point that it came from the Christian God, where as anyone else could find other information to support a different idea. There are a countless amount of translated works in the world, and Spence wants people to realize that these works are translated, and the people who trans ...
